God has given the answers to your questions right in His Word ....just take Him at His Word and believe what HE says. You will find a million versions of truth if you ask people. But you will find THE truth when you go to the source.Unfortunately there are just as many who say that is not enough...as in the large baptism being necessary split for an example, So to them you are completely wrong (I'm not saying you are)
Jeremiah 29:11-13
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
